La Biblioteca cuenta con atención personalizada para todos aquellos alumnos que, debido a su discapacidad, presenten dificultades para acceder a los servicios y recursos disponibles.
Nuestros bibliotecarios están a su disposición para ayudarles en la consulta del catálogo, en la búsqueda de información y en el acceso a cualquiera de los espacios de la Biblioteca.
University card is required to enter the Library's Reading Rooms
The Library Service is an operational which acquires, organizes, processes, and cares for all of the University's bibliographic and documentary collection and makes it available to users, regardless of their format, where they are stored, and which budget item they were charged to when acquired, except for documents belonging to the University's General Archive.
The basic purpose of the University Library is to ensure that there is a broad bibliographic and documentary base to allow Comillas Pontifical University to fulfill its teaching, study, and research aims.
To be a modern, agreeable, and accessible space, to be user oriented, to be an information reference point for the management and transmission of knowledge, where new technologies are accessible to everyone.
It must provide services that effectively support the University's mission and must be evaluated by its level of integration in the learning, teaching, and research processes of the institution to which it belongs.
Revised July 2014
Documents published since 1960 are included in this form of loan.
TYPE OF USER | VOLUMES | LOAN PERIOD |
Bachelor's students | 6 | 8 days |
Postgraduate and Master's students | 10 | 30 days |
PhD students | 15 | 60 days |
Alumni | 6 | 8 days |
Users from Affiliated Centers | 6 | 8 days |
Full time teaching and research staff* | 30 | 90 days |
Part time teaching and research staff* | 15 | 60 days |
Retired or Emeritus academic staff | 30 | 90 days |
Visiting lecturers | 30 | 90 days |
Jesuits linked to Comillas | 30 | 90 days |
Administrative and service Staff | 10 | 30 days |
Visitors with a Card** | 3 | 8 days |
*LPart time academic staff and students on courses lasting less than one academic year may make use of all of the Library's services for the duration of that course. The card will be valid for the duration of the corresponding academic year. They must provide this information to the Library staff.
**Visitors with a Card People who are not part of the university community but who need to use the Library Service. The Library Service will issue a card, with a maximum validity of one year if the grounds for requesting it are deemed to be justified.
In order to ensure the adequate functioning of the loan service, the following system of penalties is established in accordance with Section IV. Infractions and Sanctions of the Library Service Regulations.
Users of the Comillas Pontifical University Library are entitled to:
Users of Comillas Pontifical University Library are obliged to:
Approved by the Technical Committee on October 16, 2006
Approved by the Governing Board on April 29, 2002
REGULATIONS FOR MAINTAINING THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND DOCUMENTARY PATRIMONY AND FOR ACQUIRING DOCUMENTS AT COMILLAS PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY
As established in sections 1 and 4, 1 a) of the Regulations of the Library Service, this unit is responsible for the acquisition and care of all of the University's bibliographic and documentary collection, with the exception of documents belonging to the University's General Archive, regardless of their format, where they are stored, and which budget item they were charged to when acquired.
All of these bibliographic and documentary holdings comprise the bibliographic and documentary patrimony of Comillas Pontifical University and as inventory they must be included in the Library Service Catalog.
Taking the above into account, any type of monograph (book), periodical (journals and others), or any other type of document (videos, conference proceedings, etc.) that is obtained through acquisition, exchange or donation made by any section, department, institute, center or person pertaining to the University must be cataloged by the Library Service.
Bibliographic resources whose acquisition is funded by research projects with cost centers other than the Library's ones will also form part of the University's Library's collections and as such must be managed through the Acquisitions Unit of the Library Service and included in the Catalog. Restrictions on the use of these documents may be established up to the end of the research project or for other reasons, so long as they are justified.
Likewise, the Library Service must be informed of any documents generated within the University itself that might be of interest to the university community for teaching and research purposes so that they can be added to the Catalog, on condition that they do not contain confidential material.
Any material that is capable of forming part of the University's bibliographic and documentary holdings must be included in the Library Service's catalog. If it is to be newly acquired, this will be arranged by the Acquisitions Unit of the Library Service. Bibliographic and documentary holdings that are not available for loan or consultation owing to their confidential nature or other factors determining their use must also be included for inventory purposes.
With regards to the Library Service, this must have a collections management policy in place that is focused on meeting the University's aims: To this end, the Director of the Library Service, advised by the Service Committee, will draw up an annual investment and acquisitions plan in accordance with the needs of the different faculties, schools, and institutes and in accordance with the budget projections. This plan will be presented to the Governing Board for approval.
The collection must, as a minimum, provide the basic bibliography for students and teaching staff and the necessary documentary holdings to cover research work. Any other document required for the purposes of managing or providing information for the centers will be acquired by the Library Service and listed in its Catalog.
Faculties and Schools shall provide information to the Library Service on the recommended reading lists for each module with sufficient notice for them to be available during the academic year.
The categories for the collections that must be considered in relation to the different types of user include:
All periodical publications (journals) received at the University, either through purchase, exchange, or donation, must appear in the Library Service Catalog and must be available for consultation by the whole university community.
All subscriptions will be taken out in the name of the institution. Personal subscriptions will not be accepted.
Any subscription to a new title or cancellation of an existing subscription must be adequately justified by the center, department, or institute proposing it. Annual subscriptions will be renewed automatically, unless cancellation is expressly indicated.
The following criteria for rationalization will be taken into account in the periodicals section.
Loose sections of journals will not be bought. Interlibrary loans will be used to obtain specific articles.
The Library Service reserves the right to refuse to accept bibliographic material donated by institutions or individuals, taking into consideration the interest and usefulness of these holdings for the Library and its users. In order to decide on the interest of these holdings, relevant information will be requested about the works that are offered as a donation.
The Library Service will decide on the location, use, and final fate of the donated material in accordance with the general policy for organizing holdings.
Donations of bibliographic material will, in general, be accepted with no conditions of any type imposed by the person or institution making the donation, unless with the specific agreement of the parties.
All members of the university community may request the acquisition of documentary and bibliographical resources. Consequently, any user of the Library Service may suggest the purchase of bibliographic and documentary holdings. In the case of students, suggestions must be approved by a lecturer.
Final responsibility for selecting the collection lies with the director of the Library Service. The director of the Library Service may request guidance from other academic staff on the advisability of accepting particular requests in particular those who are members of the Library Service Committee.
The criteria that the Library Service will use to authorize acquisitions of bibliographic holdings are listed here for information purposes.
All requests for bibliographic material are to be made through the Acquisitions Unit of the Library Service. Direct purchases may not be made by any members of the university community, regardless of the budget item to which the acquisition is charged. The following procedure must be followed:
If acquisition of the document is charged to any cost center other than the Library, the person in charge of said cost center must authorize the corresponding purchase request (see ANNEX I). In these cases, the procedure to follow is also the same as is mentioned above but authorization by the director of the Library Service will be virtually automatic as the need for the acquisition will normally be justified by the availability of the specific budget for it.
Only in certain extraordinary and justified cases will authorization be given for the interested party to purchase the bibliographic holding directly. To do so, and before making the acquisition, the person responsible for the purchase must contact the head of the Acquisitions Unit who will provide notification of the process that must be followed to make the purchase. The University will accept no retrospective responsibility for purchases made without following the established procedure. Such materials will be returned to the person who acquired it or to the supplier that sent it.
Standard form for requesting the purchase of bibliographical and documentary materials.
C/ Universidad Comillas, 3 - 28049 Madrid
Teléfono: 91 734 39 50
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C/ Alberto Aguilera, 23-25 - 28015 Madrid
Teléfono: 91 542 28 00
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Avda. San Juan de Dios, 1, 28350
Ciempozuelos, Madrid
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Dña. Sonia Marín Fernández
Dña. Ana Jimeno Pérez
Dña. Rosario Palacios Pedraza
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Director: Mª del Puy Salvador Fernández This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Head of Acquisitions Unit: Mª del Puy Salvador Fernández This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Head of Technical Process Unit: Concha Yáñez Pino This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Head of Circulation, Bibliographic Information, and Document Access Unit: Ana García Valencia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Head of Periodical Publications Unit: Ángel David Álvarez Mendoza This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Juan Bautista Aparicio Laguna This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Javier de Domingo Ballesteros This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Alejandra Gómez Fabra This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Fernando Gómez García This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Javier González del Castillo This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Blanca Herranz Virseda This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Marta Herranz Virseda This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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María Eugenia López Varea This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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José Rufino Novo Zaballos This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Belén Novoa García This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Fernando de Pablo Sanmartín This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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The old General Library (Comillas - Cantabria)
Comillas Pontifical University Library is a service that provides support for study, teaching, and research.
It is organized as a single university library with five service points: one located at the Cantoblanco campus, and four at the Alberto Aguilera campus in the city of Madrid.
The current library has a rich collection of antique books: 23 incunabula, 2,000 books from the 16th century, and some 20,000 volumes by scholastic authors from the 17th and 18th centuries. The unification and coordination of the aforementioned libraries has culminated in the creation of an outstanding bibliographic collection in theology, philosophy, and sciences of the spirit.
This campus began its existence with the foundation of the Society of Jesus' Pontifical Seminary and University in Comillas (Cantabria) in 1892. In 1967 the University moved to Madrid, and in 1972 it settled in the new Cantoblanco campus. Its own library holdings were enriched as a result of the move to Madrid, with contributions from the libraries of the following centers: Faculty of Theology of Oña (Burgos), Faculty of Philosophy of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), the Center for Humanistic Studies of Aranjuez (Madrid), the Center for Humanistic Studies of Salamanca, the Center of Oriental Studies of Madrid, and other private donation of great importance, primarily by Jesuits.
The Catholic Institute of Arts and Industry (ICAI) of Madrid started out as the School for Mechanics and Electricity, founded in 1908. In 1961 Catholic Institute of Business Administration and Management (ICADE) was founded with its own library. The two institutes merged in 1964. In 1980 the library of the Faculty of Canon Law was added and in 1985 the library of Professor Luis García de Valdeavellano was also added. Its collections have subsequently been enriched with the Beltrán de Heredia library (93-94 academic year) as well as private donations.
In October 1996 the Quintana library was established with holdings from the Cantoblanco and Alberto Aguilera campuses.
Since October 2006 there has been a Library Service point in the ICADE Business School located in Rey Francisco street.
Each location holds the bibliographic collections of the Faculties and Schools located on that campus.
Cantoblanco contains the main philosophy, theology, psychology, pedagogy, classical literature, and spirituality collections, as well as a sizable collection relating to other disciplines in the humanities such as literature and history. The Alberto Aguilera campus holds the main law, economics, and business studies collections, supporting the ICADE's courses and the courses at the ICADE Business School, as well as mechanical engineering, physics, information technology, and new technologies for ICAI programs. The Quintana service point holds the translation and interpreting collections.
This Library makes available to the university community the bibliographic collections for the Nursing and Physical Therapy programs that our University delivers at the San Juan de Dios Nursing and Physical Therapy School. These programs are widely recognized and benefit from a considerable degree of experience, having been delivered since 1957 and 1993 respectively.
The Library Service is an operational which acquires, organizes, processes, and cares for all of the University's bibliographic and documentary collection and makes it available to users, regardless of their format, where they are stored, and which budget item they were charged to when acquired, except for documents belonging to the University's General Archive.
The basic purpose of the University Library is to ensure that there is a broad bibliographic and documentary base to allow Comillas Pontifical University to fulfill its teaching, study, and research aims.
The roles of the University Library Service include: